Elvis Wilson joins us for this very special filmy episode of Conversely, straight from the brand spankin’ new Back Porch Group headquarters at The Skillery in Germantown. We talk about film, distribution, Netflix, paywalls, and of course sociopaths (because really what’s an episode of Conversely without a few crazy people?).
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SHOW NOTES (YAY!):
- Sam Smith’s Spotify Gamble: Did It Pay Off? | Billboard
- Netflix Points a Way Forward for Streaming’s Success (Analysis) | Billboard
- Netflix doubles its profits as it reaches 50 million members | The Verge
- Netflix indeed has 1080p: Netflix says all users now have access to Super HD video | The Verge and they shot House of Cards in 4K: Netflix is now streaming 4K, starting with ‘House of Cards’ | The Verge (also we should commend The Verge on their SEO work, because they show up first for every single search we do on this stuff)
- A New NewYorker.com
- South Park to move behind Hulu’s paywall and end unlimited free streaming | Ars Technica
- Garth goes digital
- Nilay Patel’s diatribe about convenience (re: Taylor Swift) and here’s the podcast episode in which we talked about it.
- Netflix: “The Goal Is to Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Us”
- Here are the magic words to say if you want HBO without a huge cable bundle · The A.V. Club
- True Detective is awesome, BTW. Go watch it.
- And go watch John Oliver while you’re at it
- Watch Elvis Wilson’s Being Lincoln on Vimeo
- A long while ago, Mike worked on the film Farah Goes Bang, which raised 81K on Kickstarter
- [SPOILER ALERT] And since it’s just that kind of episode, we have a lot of stuff we like:
- I ORIGINS
- Robogenesis by Daniel H Wilson
- The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- El Mariachi
- Chef
- Frankenhooker
- Memento
- Belcourt Theatre
- Uptown Theatre
- Brattle Theatre
- Fox Theatre Toronto
- Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Various Artists
- Moonrise Kingdom (Original Soundtrack) – Various Artists
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Music from the Motion Picture) – Various Artists
- The Pi soundtrack which appears to not exist anywhere. Go look it up.
